Location: Watchet - Kentsford ManorType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: Mistakenly thought dead, Florence was placed in a coffin and left in the church overnight. She awoke from her coma when the sexton tried to cut off her fingers to steal her rings (he died of shock), and she returned home. Her ghost has been seen making the journey back to the manor, tapping on the windows and door once she arrives home.

Waking the Dead

Location: Watchet - St Decuman's ChurchType: Unknown Ghost TypeDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: A schoolmaster walking past the church was approached by robbers who forced him to take them to the grave of a wealthy woman who had recently died. Opening the crypt, the schoolmaster was made to remove the gold rings from the corpse's fingers. Half way through this ghastly task, the dead woman sat up and cried for her brothers and sisters to help her - nearby coffins opened and the dead sat up. The robbers and schoolmaster ran off, though the teacher died soon after sharing his story.

Gurt Dog

Location: Weacombe - Area of QuantocksType: ShuckDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: This shuck has proved quite helpful when encountered, appearing to lost walkers and leading them to safety. However, another entity in the same area known as the Wild Rider is considered fatal if met.

Grey Lady

Location: Wedmore - George InnType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Twentieth centuryFurther Comments: This Edwardian lass dressed in grey silently walks the corridors here. Guests at the hotel are said to have more than their fair share of sleep paralysis incidents.

Man with Torch

Location: Wellington - A38, near the Heatherton Grange HotelType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1970sFurther Comments: Appearing to be a man in a raincoat, this phantom uses his torch to try to flag passing cars down. One woman who refused to stop narrowly avoided hitting him. A truck driver reported once giving the ghostly man a lift to Holcombe Bridge, not realising the man was a ghost until a short time later; the driver almost hit the man as he stood in the same place where he was first picked up. Stopping to ensure that the hitcher was okay, the truck driver watched as the stranger vanished before his eyes. This may be the same entity which has been seen at Taunton.

Rising Woman

Location: Wellington - Barracks, and St James ParkType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1804Further Comments: Several guards stationed at the barracks reported the ghost of a headless woman, which rose from the ground in front of them wearing a stripy dress. The figure then set off towards the park.

Treasure

Location: Wellington - Cockcrow StoneType: LegendDate / Time: Still present?Further Comments: This stone, animated by the sound of a cockerel's crow, is said to cover a secret treasure.

Groaning

Location: Wellington - DairyType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1974Further Comments: The milkmen who worked at this dairy were permitted to come in later in the day after several unnerving reports of disembodied footsteps and strange groaning at night.

Fire Breathing Hounds

Location: Wellington - General AreaType: ShuckDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: This pack of albino dogs run while breathing flame from their mouths.

Hellsmouth

Location: Wellington - Park FarmType: OtherDate / Time: Still present?Further Comments: A muddy pool located near the farm was thought to be an entrance to hell, from where ghosts and ghouls could come and go as they pleased.

White Lady

Location: Wellow - St Julien's WellType: Crisis ManifestationDate / Time: Before a death of the Lord of HungerfordFurther Comments: This phantom white woman would materialise to give warning of encroaching death.

Bishop Jocelyn's Wyrm

Location: Wells - Area around the cathedralType: DragonDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: Bishop Jocelyn drove away a dragon that had been terrorising locals around seven holy springs - the cathedral was later built in the area.

Black Barley Seeds

Location: Wells - Crown HotelType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Late 1990sFurther Comments: These apports would appear on mass in several of the bedrooms, with no source to be found. This could be called one of the least disturbing parts of the haunting here, which has seen shadowy figures vanishing down the corridors, and a presence that knocks candles from the tables.

Cavalier

Location: Wells - King Charles Parlour public house, High StreetType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1977 / 1978Further Comments: A phantom Cavalier has been spotted on the staircase several times by owners or members of their family, while footsteps and the sound of a harpsichord have also been reported. It is reported that when a BBC TV crew tried to film inside the building all their lighting equipment blew up.

Walking Man

Location: Wells - Sherston Inn, Priory RoadType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2000sFurther Comments: This figure only appeared for a few seconds, walking through the bar area before vanishing.

Two Figures on Steps

Location: Wells - Wells Cathedral, Chapter HouseType: Unknown Ghost TypeDate / Time: Photograph taken 19 April 1954, sighting 16 June 2005, hitting in January 2007Further Comments: A photograph taken here shows two people in white, possibly a child with its mother, standing on the steps. The photographer reports that no one else stood in front of the camera at the time of the long exposure. In 2005 two people spotted a young boy on the steps to the Chapter House - concerned that he was not with parents or guardians, they followed the child and as he turned into the nave, he disappeared. A visitor in 2007 felt something hitting her back while leaving the cathedral, having earlier felt a presence in the nave.

Shawled Woman

Location: Wembdon - Highest part of the areaType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: Standing on top of a hill, this young lady with wild eyes looks down at the nearby houses. She is thought to have murdered her husband, hiding his body in their house.

White Lady

Location: West Harptree - Gournay CourtType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: This pallid female would travel the building, ending her journey on the balcony where she would disappear.

Gournay

Location: West Harptree - Richmont Castle ruins, and general areaType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: This figure, a former owner of the building, still longs for better times and fortune - until it arrives, he remains earthbound.

Stick Carrier

Location: West Quantoxhead - Hills north of areaType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: An old woman holding a large bundle of sticks has been seen here.

Hunchbacked Woman

Location: Westbury-sub-Mendip - Stonleigh CottagesType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1966Further Comments: Almost every night for a six month period, a lady living here would hear footsteps or see an old lady with a hunched back standing by the window of her bedroom. The witness described the figure as if in film negative form - her face and hands was dark, while shadows on her features were light - but said the ghost was not threatening.

Chain Rattler

Location: Weston-super-Mare - Farmhouse, formal site of Woodspring Priory (now a guesthouse), three miles NE of townType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: When the farmhouse was operational, the occupier would charge people to view the 'ghost room', a place where rattling chains would be heard at two o'clock in the morning.

Many Accidents

Location: Weston-super-Mere - Kewstoke Toll RoadType: OtherDate / Time: No exact dateFurther Comments: Though only a mile long, there have been a high number of accidents along this coast road, leading some to speculate that a paranormal source may be at work.

Long Necked Creature

Location: Weston-super-Mere - Off coastType: CryptozoologyDate / Time: 02 December 1988Further Comments: Three witnesses watched for several minutes a strange creature possessing a long neck swimming around in the mist covered sea.

Giant Meteorite

Location: Weston-super-Mere - Skies over the townType: UFODate / Time: 10 January 1869Further Comments: Seen passing overhead, this large fireball disappeared from view. Several hours later there were a series of shockwaves that were attributed to an earth tremor.